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[India] PILPAY (or BIDPAI). Les Fables de Pilpay philosophe …
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[India] PILPAY (or BIDPAI). Les Fables de Pilpay philosophe …
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[India] PILPAY (or BIDPAI). Les Fables de Pilpay philosophe indien; ou la Conduite des Rois. Paris, Claude Barbin, 1698. One volume in-12, full contemporary brown basane, spine ribbed and decorated, (10) ff. 352 pp. Defects to binding, brown stain to lower margin of first 60 ff.
Rare edition of this French translation of the Fables of Bidpaï (or Kalila and Dimna), a collection of tales and apologues of Indian origin handed down through Arab and Persian tradition. These fables, inspired by Eastern wisdom, were intended for the education of princes and the art of governing. The work was first published in French in 1644.
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